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MYP – English

Grammar PracticePerfect Paragraph – Summary EditionPractice!

End Goal – Reinforce grammar and understand how to create a perfect paragraph.

Agenda

Write the sentence WITH the mistakes. Then, completely rewrite the sentence.

Mom said “there is allot of trash in you’re room”. (6)

Fix ONLY

Mom said “there is allot of trash in you’re room”. (6)

Mom said, “There is a lot of trash in your room.”

Answers

ALWAYS indent.Start with a topic sentence

Covers ALL of the important ideas from the text

If it is a summary, it must also have the title of the piece and the author

Make sure your paragraph fits between 5-7 sentences

Perfect Paragraph

After reading and annotating piece, make a list of the five most important ideas from the text.Pretend you are talking to someone who didn’t

read the text and you can only tell them five things about it…what would you say?

Read over those five ideas and create a topic sentence that covers it all.

Perfect Paragraph - Summary

1st- Annotate the text

2nd- create a list of important ideas

3rd- create the summary

Let’s Practice Together

PERFECT PARAGRAPH FORMAT

How comfortable and confident do you feel with the different skills in this class?SummaryPerfect ParagraphParts of SpeechSemi ColonsThematic StatementsTricky WordsAnnotations

Reflection